FBI and NYPD Arrest 5 People in Bombings -MORE Explosives Found in NJ Train Station

A large NYPD and FBI operation took place in Brooklyn near the Verazzno Bridge on Sunday night.
Eyewitnesses tell B911 that several NYPD officers in swat gear armed with rifles had a vehicle stopped on the Belt Parkway.
As many as five people were taken in custody after the FBI called for NYPD backup, CBS New York reported.
It is unknown if this incident has any connection to the bombings in Manhattan on Saturday night but Senator Marty Golden said on Instagram, the
arrests are due to a “possible connection to the bombing last night in Chelsea.”

Eyewitness accounts on twitter say some 30 unmarked vehicles and 10 marked had the vehicle stopped. Others are saying that those arrested were in
Muslim garb.

Looks like it could well be connected to a supposed pipe bomb that was found just tonight in New Jersey. Lots of train delays for the past couple
hours while they are sending in robots. Twitter is going crazy with this, but I have yet to see it on MSM.

Emergency responders are in the area of North Broad and Westfield Avenue for reports of a suspicious item found according to reports.

The device is being reported as a possible pipe bomb but has not been confirmed at this time.

Police are evacuating and securing the area around the Northeast Corridor train line as service has been temporarily suspended in both directions.

UPDATE 9:29 p.m. Police are searching the train tracks near West Grand Street.
UPDATE 9:55 p.m. Hazmat has been requested to the scene.
UPDATE 10:25 p.m. Area businesses have been reportedly ordered to shut down and evacuate the area as bomb technicians have a robot operating at this
time.

Federal agents busted five people in Brooklyn in a possible connection to the Chelsea bombing after finding a bomb cache at a New Jersey train station
late Sunday, law enforcement sources said.

The suspects were busted with a weapons stash inside a SUV along the Belt Parkway after authorities discovered three pipe bombs and two smaller
devices at a train station in Elizabeth, the source said.

An Instagram account for New York State Sen. Marty Golden, citing the NYPD, said the FBI made arrests “with a possible connection to the bombing”
on the Belt Parkway near the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in Brooklyn at around 9:30 p.m.

You're right. I've had a chance to digest the updated news at the Twitter feed now. I was merely reacting Ghostrager's words. Usually Islamic
terrorists here in the USA try to "blend in". When the O.P. said that they had on Muslim garb, the first words that came to my mind were,
"profiling", "desperate to grab someone", and "Trump was Right...again".

You're right. I've had a chance to digest the updated news at the Twitter feed now. I was merely reacting Ghostrager's words. Usually Islamic
terrorists here in the USA try to "blend in". When the O.P. said that they had on Muslim garb, the first words that came to my mind were,
"profiling", "desperate to grab someone", and "Trump was Right...again".

Muslim garb is pretty commonplace in NY these days. Even in the early 2000s when I drove truck there regularly it was so.

Federal agents busted five people in Brooklyn in a possible connection to the Chelsea bombing late Sunday, law enforcement sources said.

The suspects were busted with a weapons stash inside an SUV along the Belt Parkway eastbound lanes.

Meanwhile, authorities discovered three pipe bombs and two smaller devices at a train station in Elizabeth, shuttering train service along the
Northeast Corridor from Newark Airport due to the police investigation.

A large explosion was heard in New Jersey early Monday near the scene where a suspicious package appearing to contain pipe bombs had been discovered
near the Elizabeth transit station.

No damage was immediately visible, but a light odor of what smelled like gunpowder wafted through the air.

There was no immediate word from authorities on whether the explosion might have been a controlled detonation of the device found a few hours earlier,
but no warning of such a blast was given beforehand, and officers in front of a yellow police line at the station were startled by the explosion.

An explosion was heard at the Elizabeth train station early Monday, where local and federal authorities were investigating a suspicious package.

The blast went off as a bomb robot was examining a device inside a backpack under the train tracks around 12:40 a.m. at Morris Avenue and Julian
Place, a law enforcement source told NJ Advance Media. The explosion was not a controlled blast, the source said. There were no immediate reports of
injuries or major damage.

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